VBB Episodes

Her book, Manic: A Memoir, is a New York Times best-seller, her story inspired Anne Hathaway to portray her in the TV series, Modern Love. Hers was the sexy lifestyle of a high-powered entertainment attorney in Los Angeles, representing some of the...

Eight Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships and Trapped at Home: Domestic Abuse During the Pandemic are two articles from Dr. Jason B Whiting - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He walks us through his vital research point by point.

Where does prejudice come from, along with greed and entitlement? Do any of us have a clean conscience where prejudice is concerned, and if we don't, what can we do about it?

It's just assumed that as a woman, married to a man, I'm straight, but two years ago, I realized, I'm pansexual. Jillian Johnson, Air Force spouse, mom, mental health, and LGBTQ advocate.

Lisa Selin Davis is an essayist, novelist, and journalist who has written for major publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, Time, Yahoo!, and Salon. Her first non-fiction book is TOMBOY: The Surprising History...

Melanie Esperon is a born clairvoyant, open channel healer, and guide who trains clients worldwide and in every walk of life, including celebrities like Dwayne Johnson - The Rock!

Tilar J. Mazzeo is a cultural historian who writes about women in resistance. Her books include The Widow Clicquot, The Secret of Chanel No. 5; The Hotel on Place Vendôme; Irena's Children, and her latest a biography on Eliza Hamilton, the wife of...

Tia Meredith, a woman of mixed-race, she's from a midwest town, worked her way up the ladder to a DC job with all the sweet government perks. She’s making more money than anyone in her family ever has, more money than she could ever imagine, but in...

Christopher and Heather, we're Female and Male, White and Black, Pansexual and Straight, and we dig each other, respect each other, and we get along. Why can't the world?

When a woman learns a life-lesson the hard way, will shame silence her well-earned wisdom? Christina Wessendorf is a young woman who gave up a comfortable life in Germany and moved to the Middle East to become an Egyptian man's second wife. Her hard...

Randy Thomas was once an executive with an organization that preached and practiced conversion therapy — the denial and reorientation of same-sex attraction. He learned the hard way they ware wrong and dangerous.

"Most people think my job as a hypnotist is to put them to sleep when in reality, it is to wake them up to their own abilities, creativity, and ultimate confidence." De’Anna Nunez, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, and Hypnotist ~ our guest.

A woman, called to ministry, in a conservative Baptist church… and a lesbian … who came out… at seminary! Rev. Terri Steed Pierce, Senior Pastor, Joy Metropolitan Community Church shares her inspirational story.

One day she’s a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow, the next she’s on the front line as a Resident Palliative Care Doctor managing cases of the most critically ill in a city hit hardest by Covid-19, New York City. Our conversation with a New World...

Caroline Heldman is a Professor at Occidental College, LA, specializing in Politics - the presidency, media, gender, race, and rape culture, in the American context. She’s also one of the first celebrities in the United States to contract Covid 19.

Evangelos Diavolitsis, Founder - 5Rhythms Movement, and Meditation Teacher at Meditation Moves talks with us from his lockdown in Florance, Italy.

"Fear does not prevent death; it prevents life!" Just one of the encouraging pearls Christopher and Heather share in support of living through challenging times.

It's always interesting, the off-mic conversations after our interviews. In this case, our guest Amanda McCracken felt her post-interview thoughts could be of value to our listeners, so she gave us her permission to included them as part of the...

“I Waited Until I Was 41 To Lose My Virginity. But Was It Worth it?” Amanda McCracken is one of the very few people with qualified “inexperience” to answer that question - honestly. We share a candid conversation with this Late in Life Virgin.

Can a former sex worker teach you how to be wealthier and healthier? Certainly, especially when the Oprah Winfrey Network has invited her as a guest, and her latest book is titled, The Spiritual Entrepreneur: Quantum Leap Into Your Next Level of...

Black History is more than a calendar month, but in celebration, we share a conversation with Dr. Aria Halliday, a women's studies professor at the University of New Hampshire. Dr, Halliday authored "The Black Girlhood Studies Collection," a resource...

As a youthful bride, she was all but kidnapped into a religious cult, as a new mother, she watched helplessly as her firstborn came near death because church doctrine forbade medical intervention. Annie Francesca, voted an “Iconic Woman Creating a...

A fearless young entrepreneur reveals a perturbing truth that she feels safer, and more respected at her part-time job on stage as a stripper than she does at her corporate office day job with her male bosses.

We have conversations all the time, and afterward, Heather and I always wish we had turned on a recorder. This time, I rolled tape but didn’t tell her. It’s a personal exchange that came around to the tragic passing of an imperfect hero — Kobe Bryant.